JILLIAN CUELLAR UCLA Library Special Collections JENNIFER WEINTRAUB

JILLIAN CUELLAR UCLA Library Special Collections JENNIFER WEINTRAUB Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study JASMINE JONES Smith College ANDREW GOMEZ UCLA Department of History

(LAADP)

http: //digital. library. ucla. edu/aqueduct/

Technology and Metadata � Project began during move from original, homegrown site (digital. library. ucla. edu) to Islandora � Development focused on Drupal layer to extend the possibilities for what a digital scholarship project incorporating DL materials could be. � Used this project to jumpstart ingesting materials into Fedora and testing out interfaces to use for UCLA Digital Library.

Technology and Metadata � Using JPG 2000 files for zooming in and out � Using PDFs for multipage documents � Open Seadragon enables the zooming on the JP 2 files. � Ultimately developed our own viewer for PDFs � Images reside in Fedora � How many total records? ? How many collections?

Metadata: archival vs. DL Archival Digital Library � Taken from finding aid � Item level titles, creators, (folder level) � No subject description � No date normalization � No subject or name authorities date and subjects � Geographic coordinates for browsing � MODS

Metadata options for Partners �Originally thought OAI would work (Content DM) �Because of metadata cleanup: spreadsheets! �Also included links to thumbnails when available �For the Eastern California Museum: hosted images and ingested into Fedora

Final Integration � Aqueduct site is one view to the data, though contains three interfaces: keyword, browse, and map � UCLA resources are also in Fedora (not partner resources except ECM) � Will one day be searchable with the rest of digital library content and viewable in a more traditional DL context as well as choice of viewing material in Aqueduct interfaces.

BUILDING AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT - The Los Angeles Aqueduct and its broad appeal - Capstone Project in Summer of 2014 - Using a wide range of tools to tell the story: GIS, story mapping, long-form narrative, zines, oral history, data visualization, archival method - Treating the library as not just a repository of knowledge, but as an institution that actively produces new knowledge

The St. Francis Dam Disaster

Environmental Hazards of the Owens Valley

SPURRING UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH - Using Special Collections and other primary materials - Undergraduates as collaborators - Publishing, presenting, and the undergraduate as a junior scholar

GRADUATE STUDENT TRAINING - Broadening our concept of scholarship - Writing to a broader public - Training for different jobs